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Recent News

• Our department's Fall 2024 newsletter is now available.
• On September 12-13, our department will host an Early Career Workshop in Mathematical Physics, organized by Jake Fillman, Long Li, Wencai Liu, Xin Liu, and Tal Malinovitch.
• Wencai Liu has been awarded an IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) Early Career Scientist Prize in Mathematical Physics.
• Peter Kuchment has been named a fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).
• Anne Shiu will give an invited address at the AMS Fall Central Sectional Meeting in San Antonio.
• Gregory Berkolaiko has been invited to spend the academic year 2024 - 2025 as a visiting scholar of the Institute for Advanced Study.
• JM Landsberg has been appointed to an Owen Professorship in Mathematics.
• Math major Kevin Le has been named an Astronaut Scholar by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.
• Vanessa Coffelt and Bo Zhu have been selected for Department of Mathematics outstanding service awards, and Kendra Kilmer and Yaroslav Vorobets have been selected for Department of Mathematics outstanding teaching awards.
• Angie Allen, Ali Foran, and Alex Hening have received College of Arts and Sciences Awards for 2024: Angie Allen received a Faculty Excellence Award; Ali Foran received an Early Career Teaching Award; and Alex Hening received a Research Impact Award.
• Wencai Liu has been named a Simons Fellow for 2024.
• Xiaoyu Su has been selected to receive a 2024 Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• The 22nd Annual Mathematics and Statistics Fair will host mathematics games, puzzles, activities, arts, crafts, and more on the first floor of Blocker building on Saturday, February 24, from 9am to 2:30pm. More info on the event can be found here.
• Assistant Professor Sherry Gong has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant
• Assistant Professor Alex Hening has been awarded an NSF CAREER Grant
• Texas A&M will host the Texas Analysis and Mathematical Physics Symposium (TexAMP) 2024, Feb. 9 - 11
• Distinguished Professor Guoliang Yu has been awarded a Gauss Professorship by the Goettingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
• Spectral Theory and Applications Conference, October 12-15, 2023. The conference celebrates Distinguished Professor Peter Kuchment and his contributions to the field of spectral theory.  
• Wencai Liu, with Svetlana Jitomirskaya, has just received the Frontiers of Science Award at the inaugural International Congress of Basic Science.
• Department Outstanding Teaching Awards went to Irina Bobkova and Constantin Onica. Department Outstanding Service Awards went to David Manuel and Philip Yasskin. 
• Instructional Professor Oksana Shatalov wins the 2023 Public Engagement and Outreach Award, and Applied Mathematics Major William Frendreiss wins a 2023 Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, from the College of Arts & Sciences.
• Applied Mathematics Major William Frendreiss has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to join the Georgia Tech ACO program in interdisciplinary math and computer science. He has been advised in undergraduate research and thesis at TAMU by Assistant Professor Wencai Liu and by Professor Matthew Young.
• The Mathematics and Statistics Fair will be held on April 15, 2023. This event is free and open to all ages, featuring problem-solving, games, puzzles, mathematical arts and crafts, and a public lecture. For more information and to register, click here.
• Peter Kuchment has been selected as Distinguished Rothschild Visiting Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.
• Irina Bobkova and Jonas Luhrmann have been awarded NSF CAREER grants. 
• Sue Geller has been selected as Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Class of 2023.
• Chia-Yu Chang (advisor JM Landsberg) and Ka Ho Wong (advisor Tian Yang) have been selected to receive the department's Guseman Prize for graduate students. 
• The 2022 High School Math Contest on campus on November 12 was a great success, with about 270 students from around 45 different schools, coaches, and parents participating. 
• The Department of Mathematics is ranked 19th in the world in the latest US News & World Report ranking of Best Global Universities for Mathematics.
• The Department of Mathematics is highly ranked in the most recent Research.com data. See summary in the latest Hagler Institute Newsletter.
• Chun-Hung Liu has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant.
• Jennifer Whitfield has been awarded an Eppright Professorship for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence.
• Jennifer Whitfield has been selected to receive an Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching. 
• Priyanga Ganesan has been selected to receive an Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching. 
• 2021-22 Departmental Awards for Outstanding Teaching go to Vanessa Coffelt and Todd Schrader, and those for Outstanding Service to Kathryn Bollinger and Rob Rahm. See the citations.
• Oksana Shatalov has been selected to receive a Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. See the College of Science news article.
• Texas A&M University will host the Mathematics and Statistics Fair on Saturday, February 26, 2022 in Blocker.  The fair will be fun for family members of all ages.
• Simon Foucart is named Director of the Center for Approximation and Mathematical Data Analytics (CAMDA), formerly the Center for Approximation Theory. 
• Patricia Alonso Ruiz has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant. See the College of Science article.
• Two former Texas A&M postdocs, Luis David Garcia Puente and Jonathan Hauenstein, both mentored by Frank Sottile, were selected as Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, Class of 2022.
• Travis Dillon, former TAMU REU student mentored by Matthew Young, receives the 2022 AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student, for collected works. 
• Priyanga Ganesan (advisors Michael Brannan and Eric Rowell) is the fall 2021 recipient of the Dr. Joseph Newton Graduate Student Service Award.
• Agam Shayit, physics major, has been selected for the Hyer Award for work supervised by Professor Steven Fulling. 
• Zhengye Zhou (advisor Jeffrey Kuan) and Elise Walker (advisor Frank Sottile) have been selected to receive the department's Guseman Prize for graduate students.
• Peter Kuchment has been selected as a 2021 Fellow of the American Physcial Society. See the College of Science announcement here.
• Stuart White, former postdoc, was awarded a Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society. See the citation here.
• Simon Foucart has been named Associate Director for External Academic Engagement at Texas A&M Institute for Data Science (TAMIDS). See TAMIDS announcement. 
• Matthew Faust, PhD student, has won a 2020 Paul R. Halmos-Lester R. Ford Award with coauthors for an outstanding expository article in American Mathematical Monthly. 
• Cosmas Kravaris, mathematics major, has been selected as a 2021 Astronaut Scholar. See College of Science article.
• Elise Walker, PhD student, has won a 2021 College of Science Leadership in Equity and Diversity Award.
• Sara Pollock, a former Visiting Assistant Professor currently at the University of Florida, has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant.
• TAMU Association for Women in Mathematics Student Chapter has won an Adair Organization of the Year Award for student organizations. Leaders of the student chapter are Priyanga Ganesan, Hannah Solomon, Lauren Snider, Zhaobidan Feng, Elise Walker, and faculty advisor Laura Matusevich. 
• The National Math Festival took place April 16-18, 2021. 
• Jean-Luc Guermond has been named a SIAM Fellow, Class of 2021.
• Sharon Esparza has been selected as a recipient of a 2021 President's Meritorious Service Award.
• Priyanga Ganesan has been selected as a recipient of the 2021 Buck Weirus Spirit Award by the Aggie Network.
• Matthias Maier has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant. 
• Texas A&M University will host the Mathematics and Statistics Fair on Saturday, February 27, 2021 via Zoom.  The fair will be fun for family members of all ages.  Registration information.
• Kari Eifler is selected for the 2020-21 Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Mentoring.
• The TAMU Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics won the 2020 Award in the Community Outreach Category. See article on page 9 of the AWM Newsletter.
• Anne Shiu was elected Member at Large of the American Mathematical Society Council. See the election results here.
• Harold Boas was selected as a 2020 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. See College of Science article.
• Texas A&M hosted (remotely) the third annual meeting of the SIAM TX-LA Section, October 16-18, 2020. There were 550 participants from all over the world. See the SIAM News article.
• Jean-Luc Guermond and Volodymyr Nekrashevych have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, Class of 2021. 
• Kari Eifler is the fall 2020 recipient of the Dr. Joseph Newton Graduate Student Service Award.
• Nida Obatake and Eric Tovar are this years recipients of the department's Larry Guseman Prize in Mathematics for graduate students.
• Edriss Titi and collaborators Chongsheng Cao and Jinkai Li were selected to receive a 2020 ICCM Best Paper Award for "Global well-posedness of the three-dimensional primitive equations with only horizontal viscosity and diffusion". 
• Nida Obatake has been awarded an American Dissertation Fellowship by the American Association of University Women.  
• Angela Allen has been selected to receive a Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching from the Association of Former Students.
• Laura Matusevich and Nida Obatake are recipients of the 2020 College of Science Leadership in Equity and Diversity (LEAD) Awards. 
• Department Awards for Leadership in Online Instructional Training go to Janice Epstein, Alexandra Foran, David Manuel, and Jennifer Whitfield.
• Department Outstanding Teaching Awards went to Gregory Berkolaiko and Hao Guo, and Outstanding Service Awards  went to Andrea Bonito and Volodymyr Nekrashevych.
• Janice Epstein has been selected as inaugural recipient of the Walter Daugherty Faculty Senate Service Award. 
• Priyanga Ganesan is to receive a Southerland Aggie Leader Scholarship and the GPSG Aggie Core Values Award.
• Heather Ramsey is to receive a John J. Koldus III Faculty and Staff Achievement Award.
• Yalchin Efendiev has been named a SIAM Fellow; see College of Science news here.
• Edriss Titi has been named a Distinguished Professor; see College of Science news here.
• The Texas A&M Mathematics and Statistics Fair was on KBTX February 22.
• The Math Learning Center is now open, directed by Paulo Lima-Filho.
• Nida Obatake has been selected as a recipient of the Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research for 2019.
• Rostislav Grigorchuk has been elected recipient of a Humboldt Research Award.
• Simon Foucart has been named a 2019 Presidential Impact Fellow. 
• Ken Dykema and Matthew Papanikolas have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, Class of 2020. 
• The memory of Distinguished Professor Ron Douglas is honored in an AMS Notices article written by Guoliang Yu, Roger Howe, and Shana Hutchins.
• Ola Sobieska-Snyder is the fall 2019 recipient of the Dr. Joseph Newton Graduate Student Service Award.
• Austin Conner is this year's recipient of the department's Larry Guseman Prize in Mathematics for graduate students.
• Ronald DeVore, Yalchin Efendiev, Simon Foucart, Boris Hanin, and Guergana Petrova are part of a multi-disciplinary team led by statistician Bani Mallick that has been awarded a TRIPODS Institute by the NSF.
• US News and World Report ranks Texas A&M University 17th in list of Best Global Universities for Mathematics.
• Nida Obatake has been selected to receive a 2019 College of Science Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award. 
• Sarah Witherspoon has been appointed as a 2019-20 Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow. 
• The Board of Regents has accorded the title of Professor Emerita to Paula Tretkoff.  
• Luke Robitaille, a several time contestant in our High School Mathematics Contest (each time winning in three or more categories), has won an individual gold medal (tied for 18th place) at the 60th International Mathematics Olympiad. Luke was also part of the US team that shared first place with the Chinese team. Results are here.
• Jennifer Whitfield has been appointed to the Lower-Division Academic Course Guide Advisory Committee by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
• Jane Ondrasek has been selected to receive a 2019 College of Science Outstanding Staff Achievement Award.
• Our graduate student Nida Obatake was one of two winners of the best poster presentation award at the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry in Bern, Switzerland. Nida's advisor is Anne Shiu.
• Sarah Witherspoon has been appointed Department Head, effective Sept.1, 2019. See CoS article here.
• Anne Shiu has been selected to receive an Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching, college level.
• SMaRT (Summer Research Training in Mathematics) Camp is  in session June 16 - 29. Web site is here.
• Our former post-doc Timo De  Wolff has been admitted to the German Young Academy (Junge Akademie).
• Graduate student Priyanga Ganesan has been awarded a Texas A&M University AB & Hazel H. Carter Scholarship for academic excellence.
• The Board of Regents has accorded the titles of Instructional Assistant Professor of Mathematics Emerita and Professor of Mathematics Emeritus to Mila Mogilevsky and Jon Pitts, respectively.
• Our former post-doc Anna Skripka will receive the 2019-20 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
• Boris Hanin quoted on neural networks; see article in Quanta Magazine.
• Harold Boas is among the current 20 most prolific reviewers for MathSciNet.
• 2018-19 departmental awards for Outstanding Teaching go to Florent Baudier and Boris Hanin, those for Outstanding Service to David Manuel and Oksana Shatalov. Citations are here.
• Jean-Luc Guermond, Mobil Chair in Computational Science and Numerical Analysis, has been awarded an INRIA International Chair, one of three given annually.
• Eric Rowell , Paul Bruillard, Richard Ng, and Zhenghan Wang have been selected to receive the Gerald L. Alexanderson Award (see page 10 of AIM Newsletter) by the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) for their paper "Rank-finiteness for modular categories" (Journal of the American Mathematical Society 29 (2016), 857-881).
• Peter Kuchment is to give the R. Kent Nagle Lecture at the University of South Florida on April 4.
• UG Research: Angelique Morvant (now a grad student) published Strengthening Relationships between Neural Ideals and Receptive Fields in the Rose Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal.
• 2019 Sue Geller Undergraduate Lecture given by Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University). See CoS article.
• Eric Rowell and Guoliang Yu have been named Simons Fellows in Mathematics. 2019 list is here. CoS story is here.
• Congratulations to our Putnam team, Advait Parulekar, Jordan Lamkin, and Matthew Kroesche, who placed 20th at the 2018 competition. The team is coached by Doug Hensley.
• Assistant Professor Junehuyk Jung has been awarded a Sloan Fellowship. CoS article is here.
• Texas A&M Mathematics and Statistics Fair set for February 23.  
• University Distinguished Professor and  Koss Professor of Mathematics Ron DeVore is listed by Clarivate Analytics as Highly Cited Researcher. College of Science story is here.
• University Distinguished Professor and Koss Professor of Mathematics Ron DeVore has been named Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics. CoS story is here.
• Anne Shiu gives Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Lecture. Here is CoS article.
• Alex Poltoratski and Maurice Rojas have been elected Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, class of 2019. Here is CoS article. 
• One of our applied mathematics majors, Jon Bishop, received the SEC Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.
• Taylor Brysiewicz and Ola Sobieska are this year's recipents of the department's Larry Guseman Prize for graduate students.
• Steve Fulling has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. Here is CoS article.
• Ingrid Daubechies is a HIAS Fellow for 2018-19. (Fellowship awarded 2016-17.)
• Professor Sue Geller has been granted Emerita status by the Board of Regents at their August meeting.
• Phil Yasskin receives 2018 Sigma Xi Outstanding Scientific Communicator Award.
• SMaRT Camp hosts High School students. Here is CoS article.
• Jenn Whitfield Co-PI on 2018 Global Engagement Grant.
• A&M Consolidated High School Sophomore Eric Gan named one of 12 winners of the 47th USA Mathematical Olympiad. Eric is a"graduate" of the TAMU Math Circle and of SEE-Math.
• Bill Johnson and Alex Poltoratski are speaking at the ICM today and tomorrow. CoS article is here.
• Eric Rowell  has been named a 2018 Presidential Impact Fellow. CoS story is here.
• Maurice Rojas has been selected to receive a College of Science Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award.
• Anne Shiu has been designated to be the CoS 2018-19 Montague-CTE scholar. She will implement an NSF supported Directed Reading Program for our undergraduates.
• Natarajan Sivakumar has been selected to receive an AFS Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching - College Level.
• Anne Shiu for I am Science.
• REU alumni/alumnae excell with NSF Graduate Fellowships. Seven of our recent REU students have been awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships: Bryan Felix (2016), Caitlin Lienkaemper (2015), Sarah Reitzes (2015), Zev Woodstock (2015), Aaron Chen (2016), Kayla Cummings (2016), and Lucy Yang (2016).
• Edriss Titi has been named a 2018 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. NY Times announcement; CoS article.
• Q&A with Lecturer Maya Johnson.
• Powell Chair holder Guoliang Yu has been named University Distinguished Professor. See here for CoS article.
• Distinguished Professors Ron DeVore and Peter Kuchment have been selected as SIAM Fellows, class of 2018. CoS article is here.
• Edriss Titi has been awarded a Gaspar Monge Visiting Professorship at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
• Angela Allen and JD Kim are recipients of a 2018 Honoring Excellence Award for outstanding support of on-campus students' academic success. CoS article is here.
• Our Putnam team consisting of Advait Parulekar, Jordan Lamkin, and Matthew Kroesche placed 23rd in this year's competition. The team is coached by Doug Hensley. Congratulations!
• Assistant Professor Anne Shiu has been awarded an NSF-CAREER grant. See here for CoS article.
• 2017-18 Departmental Teaching Awards were awarded to Kathryn Bollinger and Anne Shiu, departmental Service Awards to Michael Anshelevich and Tamara Carter. Citations are here.
• Matt Papanikolas and Chieh-Yu Chang won a Best Paper Award from the International Consortium of Chinese Mathematicians for papers written in the last five years. A list of 2017 recipients is here.
• The 2018 Sue Geller Undergraduate Lecture will be held Wednesday, January 17, at 6:00pm in Blocker 117 (reception at 6:30). The series is named in honor of Professor Sue Geller in the Department of Mathematics. This year's Lecturer is Judy L. Walker, Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska. Everyone is welcome.
• Eric Rowell is one of four PIs on a Focused Research Groups $1.3 million ($307,894 locally) grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the mathematical foundations of topological quantum computation and their applications. The other partner institutions are UC Santa Barbara, Louisiana State University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See stories here and here.
• The Department of Mathematics is offering a game based calculus course in Spring 2018 (look for Math289 in Howdy). The course is based on the game Variant, by Triseum. This game resulted from an initial $100K seed grant from the TAMU Tier-One program, for which Paulo Lima-Filho and Triseum CEO Andre Thomas served as Principal Investigators.
• TAMU Qatar hosts mathematics camp attracting young students from across Qatar. The event was organized by Ahmad El-Guindy, Associate Proferssor of Mathematics at TAMUQ.
• Join us at JMM 2018 for the department's third annual alumni, student, and faculty reception, 5:30 - 7:30, Friday, Jan. 12, in the Newport Beach Room of the Marriot Marquis San Diego Marina hotel.
• Frank Sottile has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Banff International Research Station (BIRS).
• Jean-Luc Guermond and Bojan Popov have been awarded Genesis Awards by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES).
• Professor Jay Walton has been granted Emeritus status by the Board of Regents at their October meeting.
• Roger Smith, Sarah Witherspoon, and Catherine Yan have been elected AMS Fellows, class of 2018. CoS article is here.
• High School Mathematics Contest brings 700 students, coaches, and parents to campus on October 21. Pictures are here.
• USNews&World Report Best Global Universities ranks TAMU Mathematics, Statistics combined No. 16 in the world.
• Graduate students Nathan Green and Wenyu Lei are this year's recipients of the Larry F. Guseman Prize.
• The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma is optimal; see story here.
• Maurice Rojas is Mathematician of the Day at Lathisms, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
• CoS article on Quantum Computing research in our department features Julia Plavnik and Eric Rowell.
• Owen Professor of Mathematics Edriss Titi has been awarded a prestigious Einstein Visiting Fellowship by the Einstein Foundation, Berlin, to be held at Freie Universitat Berlin.
• Our undergraduates win awards at 2017 MAA MathFest: Preston Biro is Student Problem Solving Champion and Devyn Rice and Renee  Swischuk win Outstanding Presentation Awards. Also, High School senior and Math Circle alumnus Parth Sarin wins a Pi Mu Epsilon Student Speaker Award.
• University Distinguished Professor Peter Kuchment has been invited as a John von Neumann Visiting Professor to Munich Technical University during the 2018/19 winter term.
• Professors Don Allen, Mike Pilant, Joel Zinn, and Associate Professors Mike Stecher and Tom Vogel have been granted Emeritus status by the Board of Regents at their August meeting.
• Edriss Titi will give an Invited Address to the American Mathematical Society at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, Jan.10--13, 2018.
• Fatma Terzioglu wins  2017 College of Science Leadership in Equity and Diversity (LEAD) Award.
• David Kerr wins college level Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching,
• SMaRT high school camp, June 18th - July 1st. Group picture
• Visiting Assistant Professor Julia Plavnik has been selected to participate in the Heidelberg Laureates Forum.
• Ron DeVore, Distinguished University Professor and Walter E. Koss Professor of Mathematics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. CoS news article, poster.
• Bill Johnson and Alex Poltoratski are invited speakers at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Our Putnam team (Matthew Kroesche, Advait Parulekar, Andrew Armstrong) placed 31st in the December 2016 competition. The team is coached by Doug Hensley.
• Kristin Lauter will deliver this year's Maxson Lectures, April 18-19.
• Harold Boas is to be recognized with the Paul Halmos-Lester Ford Award of the MAA for his paper Mocposite Functions, published in the May 2016 issue of The American Mathematical Monthly. See CoS article here.
• Three of our undergraduates won awards during Student Research Week: Thomas Settlemyre and Joseph Merritt (joint), first place,Sigma Xi Interdisciplinary Award; Devyn Rice (joint with Cassidy Caldwell,, TL&C), second place in Human Development and Education.
• Foias Lectures to be given by Constantine Dafermos of Brown University, March 27-31.
• Inaugural spring meeting of the Brazos Analysis Seminar, March 25-26, at TAMU.
• Math Fair Saturday, March 25, 9:00am - 1:00pm in Blocker, as part of Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month.
• Yalchin Efendiev wins Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Graduate Mentoring.
• Departmental Teaching Awards went to Dean Baskin and Joungdong Kim, departmental Service Awards to Rashi Arora and Mike Pilant. Citations are here.
• Assistant Professor Dean Baskin has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant. See CoS article here.
• Jeffrey Lagarias of the University of Michigan is delivering this year's Undergraduate Research Lecture on March 1. CoS article.
• Hagler Institute for Advanced Study (formerly TIAS) Symposium, Fedruary 22-24, 2017.
• Gordon Chen et al. article on the crash of Germanwings flight 9525 is an Invited Comments article inthe focus issue on 21st century frontiers of Physica Scripta. CoS press release is here.
• Math Booth at Texas A&M STEMfest 2017, Saturday February 4. See here for pictures (both training and actual event).
• One of our undergraduate students, Meghan Shanks, received an Outstanding Poster Award at the MAA Student Poster Session at JMM 2017.
• Timo de Wolff has been awarded a prestigious Emmy Noether Fellowship by the DFG which will fund a junior research group under his direction for five years at the Technical University of Berlin.
• For the third year in a row, Distinguished Professor and Holder of the Koss Professorship in Mathematics Ron DeVore is among Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers. CoS article is here.
• The Colleges of Liberal Arts, Medicine, and Science are teaming up for a Nobel Prizes `Symposium' Friday, Dec. 2 at 4:00pm in the Hawking Auditorium. Eric Rowell will elucidate some ideas behind the Physics Prize involving topological phases of matter. See also CoS article and Eagle article.
• Graduate students Sourav Dutta and Fulvio Gesmundo awarded the L.F.Guseman Prize in Mathematics.
• CoS article on Efendiev and Landsberg's election as AMS Fellows, class of 2017.
• David Kerr will have an exhibition of his photography `Reconfiguring Natures' at the Stark Galleries in the MSC, Nov. 10-23. See CoS article.
• Yalchin Efendiev and JM Landsberg have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, class of 2017.
• Our annual High School Math Contest will take place Saturday, October 22. See CoS news article.
• Nathan Mehlhop, one of our undergraduates, received a certificate for Outstanding Presentation at this summer's MathFest at the MAA Student Paper Session. Congratulations!
• Christian Williams, one of our Math majors, placed third in the National Math Problem Solving Competition at MathFest.
• Article by Sourav Dutta on MATLAB creator Cleve Moler's visit to TAMU in SIAM News.
• SEE-Math in session (July 18-29); see CoS article.
• Graduate student Fatma Terzioglu in SIAM News.
• SMaRT Camp currently in action; CoS article.
• Our Calc 1 Math Placement Exam now marketed nationwide by WebAssign.
• USAF General (ret.) and 1967 Mathematics graduate Patrick K. Gamble named Texas A&M Distinguished Alumnus by the Association of Former Students.
• Fatma Terzioglu has been awarded a SIAM Student Paper Prize for her paper `Some Inversion Formulas for the Cone Transform'. CoS article.
• Our annual Math Fair is to be held on Saturday, April 16, in connection with Math Awareness Month. CoS article is here.
• Sue Geller graduates her 100th Mathematics Master's student, James DeVinney'15. CoS article is here.
• March Boedihardjo and Fatma Terzioglu are this year's recipents of the Larry Guseman Prize in Mathematics.
• Our Putnam team placed 58th out of several hundred teams at this year's competition. Two team members, Advait Parulekar and Matthew Kroesche, earned individual distictions for placing in the top 500 out of 4275 contestants. The team is coached by Doug Hensley.
• Janie Schielack has been named Impact in Training & Learning Award recipient at the 2016 Research-to-Practice Conference at SMU.
• Sourav Dutta wins second place in Math/Stat/CompScience oral presentation at Student Research Week.
• Laura Matusevich will give an Invited Address at the AMS Spring Central Section Meeting in Fargo, April 17, 2016. Here is a companion piece in the Spring Sectional Sampler.
• Mike Pilant has been named a Fellow of the ICTCM at its 2016 session.
• SIAM News front page article by Wolfgang Bangerth, Juliane Dannberg (Research Visitor), Rene Gassmoller (Research Visitor), Timo Heister (former post-doc), on Computational Modeling of Convection in the Earth's Mantle.
• Richard Stanley of MIT is the inaugural  speaker in the department's new Undergraduate Research Lecture in Mathematics series.
• The 50 best mathematics programs in the world. See also CoS article.
• New CoS video LEARN FROM THE BEST.
• Arezou Ghesmati has been named co-winner of the AWM Poster Session at the JMM in Seattle.
• Janie Schielack designated member of the Texas A&M System Academy of Teacher Educators. See CoS article.
• University Distinguished Professor Peter Kuchment has been elected a 2015 AAAS Fellow. See also CoS article.
• Batt article on Flight 370 and supercomputing.
• Our annual HighSchool Math Contest was held Saturday, Oct. 24.
• US News and World Report has published its new Best Global Universities research rankings. In mathematics (which comprises mathematics plus statistics), our ranking is #17 (up from 21 last year). See also the Shanghai rankings, #14.
• Graduateprograms.com has announced its Fall 2015 rankings of the top Mathematics graduate programs according to graduate students, ranking the department #8.
• For the second year in a row, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Ronald DeVore has been recognized by Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers. DeVore is the holder of the Walter E. Koss Endowed Professorship in Mathematics.
• Our new SIAM Student Chapter has been approved by SIAM. Peter Kuchment is the faculty advisor.
• Our UG student Madeline Hansalik received an award for student research/presentation at this year's Math Fest for her presentation on Magnetic Spectral Decimation on Self Similar Fractals.
• Peter Kuchment elected Senior Member of IEEE
• Thomas Schlumprecht has been named to the 2016 class of AMS Fellows.
• Judy Muzny will be a recipient of the 2015 College of Science Outstanding Staff Achievement Award.
• Results (and photos) of 2015 REU.
• Our Fast Track student William Linz has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. See CoS article.
• Dean Baskin and Gregory Berkolaiko  will speak at this year's International Congress on Mathematical Physics, Santiago de Chile, July 27 - August 1, 2015. Berkolaiko will speak in the session on Quantum Mechanics and Spectral Theory; Baskin will speak in the Annales Henri Poincare Prize event, as winner of the 2013 Birkhauser AHP Prize.
• Arezou Ghesmati and Guanglian Li named co-winners of AWM Poster Session competition
• Stephen Fulling and Kaitlyn Phillipson win College of Science Undergraduate Research Mentoring Awards
• David Manuel wins AFS (Association of Former Students) Teaching Award (College Level)
• College of Science article   features Abel Visiting Scholar Praise Adeyemo
• Gordon Chen and co-workers article on water entry of an airliner on cover of AMS Notices. See also TAMUQ article.
• This year's Foias Lectures delivered on April 29th, April 30th, and May 1st
• This year's Maxson Lectures given on May 4th and 5th
• 12th Annual Texas A&M Math Fair held on April 18th
• Stephen Rowe and Rishika Rupam named winners of this year's L.F. Guseman Prize
• Rostislav Grigorchuk awarded Bogolyubov Prize by the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences
• Sue Geller wins Association of Former Students Award for Individual Student Relationships
• A recap of Pi Day of the Century, hosted by the maths department on 14th March 2014
• Don Allen to be named Fellow of the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics
• Praise Adeyemo of the University of Ibadan in Nigeria is visiting the department this semester as an Abel Visiting Scholar
• Former Visiting Assistant Professor Yuliya Gorb wins NSF Career Award
• Fields Medallist Cedric Villani will give the 2014-15 Distinguished Lecture at TAMU, Qatar
• Edriss Titi appointed Owen Professor of Mathematics
• Ron DeVore one of four CoS faculty among Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers 2014
• Andrew Penland and Kaitlyn Phillipson named College of Science Graduate Teaching Fellows
• Departmental Awards presented to Wolfgang Bangerth (teaching), Tom Vogel (teaching), Matt Papanikolas (service), and Roger Smith (service); Christy Sparkman wins staff award
• Annual High School Mathematics Contest, directed by Michael Stecher, draws record number of 468 participants
• Rostislav Grigorchuk wins American Mathematical Society's Leroy P. Steele Prize for seminal contribution to research
• Harold Boas named Regents Professor
• COS news article features Wolfgang Bangerth and Jill Zarestky
• Simons Institute news article by J. M. Landsberg
• Q&A with Associate Dean Janie Schielack on enhancement and assessment in maths education
• Phil Yasskin   named 2014 Raytheon Math Hero
• David Larson elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
• Yalchin Efendiev to speak at International Congress of Mathematicians, in section on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation; TAMU College of Science article here
• Alex Whatley, a high-school student enrolled in the TAMU maths programme as a non-degree-seeking student, wins bronze medal for Canada at the recent International Mathematical Olympiad
• A&M maths students who won awards at this year's MathFest:  Daniel Miller (SIAM Prize) at the Pi Mu Epsilon Student Sessions;  Will Linz (third place in the problem solving competition); Aditi Ghosh (runner-up for the best AWM poster at the meeting)
• Peter Howard wins Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award (College Level)
• Eagle article on this year's SEE Math Camp; watch video here
• Promotions, effective September 2014: Oksana Shatalov to Senior Lecturer; Riad Masri to Associate Professor; Michael Anshelevich, Gregory Berkolaiko, Grigoris Paouris, and Zoran Sunik to Professor
• Senior Lecturers Angela Allen, Ben Aurispa, Kathryn Bollinger, Joe Kahlig, Kendra Kilmer, Greg Klein, Heather Ramsey, Sherry Scarborough, Mariya Vorobets, and Jill Zarestky appointed Instructional Assistant Professors, effective September 1, 2014
• J.M.Landsberg to hold Chancellor's Professorship at UC-Berkeley's Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, during the Fall semester of 2014
• Maurice Rojas named Von Neumann Visiting Professor at TU Muenchen, for the Winter term of 2015
• Kate Juschenko, former student of Gilles Pisier's, awarded 2014-15 AMS Centennial Fellowship
• Gordon Chen and collaborators receive the 2014 Best Research Team Award from Qatar National Research Fund
• Winners of this year's Houston A&M Mothers' Club Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards: David Carroll, Keaton Hamm,  Mallikarjuna Muddamallappa, Yi-Ching Wang, and Tracy Weyand
• Marcia Drost receives John J. Koldus III Faculty and Staff Achievement Award
• Fields medallist Alain Connes to deliver the inaugural Foais Lectures on May 2nd and 3rd as part of Noncommutative Geometry Festival
• Mathematics senior Kristi Board and other aggieTEACH students gain field experience
• Maths department's L.F. Guseman Prize awarded to doctoral students Ryan Causey and Kaitlyn Phillipson
• Sue Geller selected to receive Women's Faculty Network Outstanding Mentoring Award for the year 2013
• Ron DeVore wins the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Research; AFS awards for teaching (university level) go to Jean Marie Linhart and Jay Walton; click here for more
• Jennifer Whitfield has been named to the Chancellor's Academy of Teacher Educators
• Mark Stern has been inducted to the College of Science Academy of Distinguished Former Students.  Stern took his undergradute degree in maths from Texas A&M University in 1980.
• Alisa Baron named winner of the 2013-14 President's Meritorious Service Award
• Doctoral students Van Nguyen, Sofia Ortega-Castillo, and Tracy Weyand presented posters at the Association of Women in Mathematics Workshop Poster Competition in Baltimore; Weyand tied for first place awarded to the most outstanding graduate student research poster.
• Sue Geller receives the 2014 Ron Barnes Distinguished Service to Students Award, from the Texas section of the Mathematical Association of America
• Michael Anshelevich named maths department's Director of Undergraduate Research
• Joint appointment for Maurice Rojas in the department of Computer Science
• This year's recipients of the maths department's awards for Outstanding Teaching and Service: Joe Kahlig and Steve Fulling (teaching); Heather Ramsey and Zoran Sunik (service).  Award citations
• Doctoral student  Van Nguyen bags Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research
• Senior mathematics major Ernesto Calleros and senior physics major Christopher Akers, who is minoring in maths, awarded the John B. Beckham Award in Science
• John Hauenstein, former Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at TAMU, receives a DARPA Young Faculty Award
• Stuart White, former Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at TAMU, awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
• Jennifer Whitfield  receives 2012 John E. Trott, Jr., Award in student recruiting from the College of Education and Human Development
• A&M undergraduates win MathFest awards
• Paulo Lima-Filho appointed Associate Dean for International Programs in the College of Science
• Oksana Shatalov receives the Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award in the College of Science
• Maurice Rojas and co-authors awarded 2013 ISSAC Distinguished Paper Award
• Andrea Bonito awarded NSF CAREER grant
• Raytcho Lazarov honored at symposium by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with the Marin Drinov Medal, the highest recognition given by the Academy.
• Jennifer Bryson, newly minted mathematics graduate, awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
• Mathematics undergraduate Robert Carpenter wins Brown Foundation-Earl Rudder Memorial Outstanding Student Award
• Former doctoral student Gaik Ambartsoumian in the news
• Yalchin Efendiev will be an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, to be held in Seoul in 2014
• Goong Chen and fellow members of a team of physicists and mathematicians win TAMU-Qatar 2013 Research Team Excellence Award
• The Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America confers the 2013 Award for Distinguished University Teaching on Harold Boas
• Graduate students Van Nguyen and Detchat Samart awarded L.F.Guseman Prize
• Recent PhD graduate Donald Brown wins the 2013 InterPore-Fraunhofer Award for Young Researchers, awarded by the International Society for Porous Media
• Mathematics Undergraduate Researcher Daniel Miller named Goldwater Scholar
• Wolfgang Bangerth receives 1.3M grant from NSF to expand use of deal.II
• Jean-Marie Linhart named to top 25 women faculty/educators in Texas by StateStats.
• Graduate student Fulvio Gesmundo wins Luigi Campedelli prize for his master's thesis.
• Vince Schielack has been named as a 2012-13 member of the Chancellor's Academy of Teacher Educators.
• TAMU Math Circle - Math Education Comes Full Circle for Gifted Middle Schoolers
• Alexei Poltoratski featured lecturer at CBMS Conference on Uncertainty Principle in Harmonic Analysis: Gap and Type Problems
• The following have been named American Mathematical Society Fellows: Professors Harold Boas, Ronald DeVore, Ronald Douglas, Rostislav Grigorchuk, William Johnson, Peter Kuchment, Gilles Pisier, Frank Sottile, Emil Straube, Clarence Wilkerson, and Guoliang Yu.
• Mathematics undergraduate Jennifer Bryson receives John B. Beckham Award in Science
• Bangti Jin receives MediaV Young Researcher Award at the International Conference on Inverse Problems and Related Topics, held in Nanjing, China
• Yalchin Efendiev and Jean-Luc Guermond appointed to the Mobil Chair in Computational Science
• Guoliang Yu appointed to the Powell Chair in Mathematics
• A recent graduate in the news
• Halliburton grant helps fund New Outreach Program
• Sandra Nite selected as TLAC Distinguished Graduate for Summer 2012
• Charles Zheng wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship;more info
• Peter Kuchment featured lecturer at NSF-CBMS Conference on Mathematical Methods of Computed Tomography
• Rhonda Faust receives College of Science Outstanding Staff Achievement Award
• Janice Epstein named co-recipient of the Richard Stadelmann Award for service to the Faculty Senate
• Jean Marie Linhart to receive the College-level Distinguished Teaching Award from The Association of Former Students
• Undergraduates at MathFest
• Peter Kuchment featured speaker at NSF-CBMS Conference on Mathematical Methods of Computed Tomography
• Rhonda Faust receives College of Science Outstanding Staff Achievement Award
• Janice Epstein named co-recipient of the Richard Stadelmann Award for service to the Faculty Senate
• Jean Marie Linhart to receive the College-level Distinguished Teaching Award from The Association of Former Students
• Tanner Wilson wins Brown Foundation-Earl Rudder Memorial Outstanding Student Award
• Stephen Rowe receives Sandia Graduate Fellowship and Research Award
• Mustafa Benli and Donald Brown awarded L.F. Guseman Prize in Mathematics
• Houston A&M Mother’s Club Outstanding TA Award presented to Craig Gin, Daniel Godber, Stephen Rowe, and Heather Williamson
• Harold Boas named Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence
• Sue Geller receives The Director’s Award for Outstanding Service to Honors Programs
• Catherine Yan gave an Invited Address to the AMS at the meeting in Lawrence, Kansas, on March 31, 2012.
• Grigoris Paouris has been awarded an NSF Career grant.
• Kumbakonam Rajagopal has received an honorary doctorate from Charles University, Prague.
• Professor Emeritus Carl Maxson was presented an Honorary Doctorate for his outstanding contributions to Algebra from the Johannes Kepler University.
• May Boggess and her students enjoy coloring for an educational cause as part of a unique Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the Department of Mathematics.
• Phil Yasskin has been selected to receive a College Level Association of Former Students Teaching Award, Fall 2011.
• Emil Straube has officially been named head of the Mathematics Department, effective September 1, 2011.
• Peter Kuchment will be promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor, effective September 1, 2011.
• Joe Pasciak is the recipient of the 2011 Association of Former Students university-level Distinguished Achievement Award for Research.
• Gilles Pisier has been elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy to honor is fundamental work in functional analysis, harmonic analysis, and probability.
• The National Research Council has released its rankings of graduate programs by discipline, overall the department ranked 25th in the nation and 14th among public institutions.
• M. Aguiar, N. Bergeron, and F. Sottile are one of two runners-up for the 2010 Compositio prize for best paper "Combinatorial Hopf algebras and generalized Dehn-Sommerville relations," published in Compositio Mathematica 2006--2009.
• The following mathematics faculty members have been given Teaching Excellence
• Angela Allen and Joel Zinn have received the 2009 Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award.Awards (SLATE) by the A&M System: Angela Allen, Amy Austin, Jon Hauenstein, and Heather Ramsey. Angela Allen and Jon Hauenstein’s awards are in the top category
• Professor Jay Walton has been designated to receive an Association of Former Students Award in Teaching at the College level.
• Ronald Douglas receives honorary doctorate from University of Waterloo.
• Harold Boas receives Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement University-Level Award in Teaching.
• Joe Pasciak Receives Sigma Xi Outstanding Science Communicator Award.
• Yalchin Efendiev has been selected to receive the Fraunhofer-Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
• Peter Howard has been selected to receive the Partner in Learning Award from the Department of Multicultural Services.
• Sandra Nite won first place in her session "Teaching and Learning" and took second place overall in our College for her participation in Student Research Week.
• The following promotions were approved by the Chancellor and Board of Regents beginning September 1:

  Ron DeVore to Distinguished Professor

  Matt Papanikolas to Professor

  Sarah Witherspoon to Professor

  Angela Allen to Senior Lecturer

• Harold Boas receives Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching.
• The seventh annual East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium was held at Texas A&M University.
• Ronald DeVore was awarded a DoD-Office of Naval Research grant, Fast computational algorithms in high dimensions.
• Guido Kanschat was awared a NFS grant, CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences
• Mike Pilant received funding for the Third Annual Doha Conference in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science.

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